Singing about your sadness unburdens your soul. But the blues hollers shouted about more than being sad. They were also delivering messages in musical code. If the master was coming, you might sing a hidden warning to the other field hands. . . The blues could warn you what was coming. I could see the blues was about survival.
The freedom message brings us together, it doesn't divide us.
The world does not need sermons; it needs a message. You can go to seminary and learn how to preach sermons, but you will have to go to God to get messages.
The Quran says nothing about the veil, except for an injunction to veil the bosom, which is obvious. As for the face, Muhammad's wife Khadijeh never wore the veil, nor did the other wives of the Prophet after Khadijeh died. [. . . ] The ulema have twisted the Quran with their hadith, always twisting it toward those in power, until the message Muhammad laid out so clearly, straight from God, has been reversed, and good Muslim women are made like slaves again, or worse.
When the message out there is so horrible that, to be gay, you can get killed for it. . . we need to change the message!!
I’ll respond to your text message, baby.
Every dollar not spent is another dollar you have to reach the voters and convey a message.
To have someone to relate to and hopefully enjoy the music and get a positive message out of it, to make the best music that we possibly could, those were the goals.
If our 'message' is anything, it's a positive approach to life. That life is basically good. People are basically good.
We save paradise by an intense education program where you get people that you can trust to talk sanely about the environment and hope that the message will get through.
I am destined to proclaim the message, unmindful of personal consequences to myself.
Use correct grammar and punctuation. Do not use net speak, like WOT, W-O-T or U. Those messages get a lot lower reply rate.
Paradoxically, the more you are yourself, the more universal your message. As you develop and individuate more deeply, you break through into deeper layers of the collective consciousness and the collective unconsciousness.
Music without a message is just sound
It's frustrating when you feel like you have a message to get out and people just judge you regardless.
For me, poetry has a strong link to my filmmaking. My films learn from my poetry. In poetry, you're free. You start in the corner and you don't know where it leads you. I have no message, I have nothing I want to tell, I just start and I see where it leads, and it's a big surprise and relief if it's good. That's the ideal state for filmmaking.
The information contained in an English sentence or computer software does not derive from the chemistry of the ink or the physics of magnetism, but from a source extrinsic to physics and chemistry altogether. Indeed, in both cases, the message transcends the properties of the medium. The information in DNA also transcends the properties of its material medium.
No matter how many times you forget it, you can turn around and help someone. Or you can deliver a positive message or share with someone or just listen to someone share their story with you, it's just the best gift there is. And it's free.
The biggest misconception is that sometimes activists have to be loud and are radical to get their message across.
Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message I give you.
